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News channel or source: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2023/09/libya-derna-flooding-dam-collapse/675338/

Published on: Friday 15 September 2023

Footage and eyewitness accounts have conveyed harrowing scenes from the storm-struck Libyan town of Derna: overflowing morgues and mass burials, rescuers digging through mud with their bare hands to ...

News Libya » Derna » Events: Libya: Derna Flood Response Costs Lives

News channel or source: https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/12/06/libya-derna-flood-response-costs-lives

Published on: Tuesday 05 December 2023

(Beirut) – An independent inquiry is needed to review failings in Libyan authorities’ management of catastrophic flooding in eastern Libya in September 2023, Human Rights Watch said today. The floods ...

News Libya » Derna » Events: Libya investigates dams’ collapse after a devastating flood last weekend killed more than 11,000

News channel or source: https://thehill.com/homenews/ap/ap-international/ap-libya-probes-the-collapse-of-two-dams-after-flooding-devastated-an-eastern-city-killing-over-11000/

Published on: Saturday 16 September 2023

DERNA, Libya (AP) — Libyan authorities have opened an investigation into the collapse of two dams that caused a devastating flood in a coastal city as rescue teams searched for bodies on Saturday, ...

News Libya » Derna » Events: Libya was mired in chaos and corruption. For years, warnings the Derna dams may burst went unheeded

News channel or source: https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/in-corrupt-libya-longtime-warnings-of-the-collapse-of-the-derna-dams-went-unheeded/

Published on: Sunday 17 September 2023

CAIRO (AP) — The warnings were clear but went unheeded. Experts had long said that floods posed a significant danger to two dams meant to protect nearly 90,000 people in the northeast of Libya. They ...

News Libya » Derna » Events: Libya opens investigation into dams' collapse after flood killed thousands

News channel or source: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/libya-opens-investigation-into-dams-collapse-after-flood-killed-thousands/

Published on: Saturday 16 September 2023

Derna, Libya-- Libyan authorities have opened an investigation into the collapse of two dams that caused a devastating flood in a coastal city as rescue teams searched for bodies on Saturday, nearly a ...

News Libya » Derna » Events: Aging dams and missed warnings: A lethal mix of factors caused Africa’s deadliest flood disaster

News channel or source: https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/14/middleeast/lethal-factors-leading-to-libya-floods-intl

Published on: Thursday 14 September 2023

It started with a bang at 3 a.m. Monday as the residents of Derna were sleeping. One dam burst, then a second, sending a huge wave of water gushing down through the mountains towards the coastal ...

News Libya » Derna » Events: Derna, Libya: Floods, Death, and Destruction: The Gift of NATO

News channel or source: https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/09/22/derna-libya-floods-death-and-destruction-the-gift-of-nato/

Published on: Thursday 21 September 2023

After the two dams broke in Derna, eastern Libya on Monday September 11, 2023, more than 11,300 persons were killed. There are over 11,000 still missing one week later. All the major international ...

News Libya » Derna » Events: How the failure of two dams amplified the Derna Flood tragedy

News channel or source: https://phys.org/news/2025-03-failure-amplified-derna-tragedy.html

Published on: Friday 28 March 2025

A new study reveals that the devastating 2023 flood in Derna, Libya, was not merely the result of extreme rainfall but was drastically intensified by a major design shortcoming and its resulting ...

News Libya » Derna » Events: Climate change “undoubtedly” played a role in Libyan floods that killed over 11,000 people: experts

News channel or source: https://www.salon.com/2023/09/15/climate-change-undoubtedly-played-a-role-in-libyan-floods-that-over-11000-people-experts/